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Who baptized Constantine I near the end of his life?
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Constantine I
Portrait head of Constantine I, marble, Roman, c. 325–370 ce; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Constantine I was baptized near the end of his life by Eusebius of Nicomedia, the bishop of Nicomedia.12
Having long delayed the ceremony—partly due to a desire to be baptized in the Jordan River and partly due to the responsibilities of his office—Constantine fell ill while preparing for a campaign against Persia. After failing to recover at Helenopolis, he was forced to take to his bed near Nicomedia, where he received baptism and donned the white robes of a neophyte shortly before his death in 337.1